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Author : Frank Fraser Darling,John P. Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002944093
"Being the record of a conference convened by the Conservation Foundation in April, l965, at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia."--T.p.
Author : DSR Sustainability Research (Firm),Stratos Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 2923358791
"This report summarizes recent research concerning the major forces and underlying trends that are likely to shape the environment of North America in 2030. The intention of this report is not to present a prediction of the future. Rather, it is to consider the possibilities that the future might hold in light of the environmental and social stresses facing North America and the world at this time"--Executive summary.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biogeography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015250538
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Author : Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0892065206
Author : Richard J. Beamish,Brian J. Rothschild
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402092107
Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and recruitment. Authors of the 34 chapters review the science in their particular fields and use their experience to develop informed opinions about the future. Everyone associated with fish, fisheries and fisheries management will find material that will stimulate their thinking about the future. Readers will be impressed with the potential for new discoveries, but disturbed by how much needs to be done in fisheries science if we are to sustain North American fisheries in our changing climate. Officials that manage or fund fisheries science will appreciate the urgency for the new information needed for the stewardship of fish populations and their ecosystems. Research organizations may want to keep some extra copies for a future look back into the thoughts of a wide range of fisheries professionals. Fisheries science has been full of surprises with some of the surprises having major economic impacts. It is important to minimize these impacts as the demand for seafood increases and the complexities of fisheries management increase.
Author : Robert G. Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1442603690
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004300712
Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world’s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, educational studies, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society–nature interactions in – culturally as well as ecologically – one of the most diverse regions of the world. Contributors include: Omer Aijazi, Roland Benedikter, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Eugene Cordero, Martin David, Demetrius Eudell, Michael K. Goodman, Frederic Hanusch, Naotaka Hayashi, Jürgen Heinrichs, Grit Martinez, Antonia Mehnert, Angela G. Mertig, Michael J. Paolisso, Eleonora Rohland, Karin Schürmann, Bernd Sommer, Kenneth M. Sylvester, Anne Marie Todd, Richard Tucker, and Sam White.
Author : Robert G. Healy,Debora L. VanNijnatten,Marcela López-Vallejo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1442693789
"This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The book offers insights into transboundary cooperation both before and after NAFTA, and presents a framework for making environmental interaction more effective in the future"--Back cover.
Author : John R. McNeill,George Vrtis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520279179
"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert G. Healy,Debora VanNijnatten,Marcela López-Vallejo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442601796
This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The book offers insights into transboundary cooperation both before and after NAFTA, and presents a framework for making environmental interaction more effective in the future. The book is organized into two parts. The first, more general, section compares the national contexts for environmental management in each country--including economic conditions, sociocultural dynamics, and political decision-making frameworks-- and shows how these have led to variations in policy approaches and levels of capacity. The authors argue that effective environmental governance in North America depends on the ability of transboundary institutions to address and mediate these differences. The book's second section illustrates this argument, using four case studies of environmental management in North America: biodiversity and protected areas, air pollution (smog); greenhouse gas reduction, and genetically modified crops.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951000873821W
1919/28 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1919/20-1935/36 issues and also material not published separately for 1927/28. 1929/39 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1929/30-1935/36 issues and also material for 1937-39 not published separately.
Author : Victor B Scheffer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295803258
Victor Scheffer writes of a social revolution. Environmentalism began as a revelation that the resources supporting life are limited and that men and women can--if they act wisely and soon--reduce their material demands and their numbers before limits are reached and the richness of human existence is diminished forever. The revelation grew into a revolution driven by a morality of life or death for the human race. Environmentalism is not a word deeply rooted in the American vernacular. It was seldom used before the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, although warnings about the environment had been sounded earlier. It has roots in conservation--the preservation and careful use of natural resources--and in ecology--the study of the relastionships between these roots. It describes areas of major concern to environmentalists in the sixties and seventies, ranging from wasted croplands and forests through endangered species to birth control. It reports progress on three fronts: educational, legal, and political. Richly anecdotal, the book is an informal history of a generation of aroused citizens who began to see their outdoor surroundings--and indeed all of Planet Earth--in a new light. The formative years of the movement-1960 to 1980-are central to the narrative. By 1980 environmentalism as a social science, a field of political management, a philosophy, and to many a religion, was firmly in place. The movement met with notable setbacks during the Reagan years, however, and Scheffer concludes his narrative with an epilogue highlighting environmental events from 1981 to 1989. Although veterans of the movement will find much in the book familiar territory, they will welcome the broad coverage of crises, decisions, and laws that set the stage for environmental victories. As a new generation joins the environmental movement, the book will help them understand the moral impetus that gave birth to environmentalism and the public awareness and concern for change that grew with the movement.
Author : Lynton Keith Caldwell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0253334446
"The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College What has been achieved since the National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969? This book points out where and how NEPA has affected national environmental policy and where and why its intent has been frustrated. The roles of Congress, the President, and the courts in the implementation of NEPA are analyzed. Professor Caldwell also looks at the conflicted state of public opinion regarding the environment and conjectures as to what must be done in order to develop a coherent and sustained policy.
Author : Emily Jane Stover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCR:31210024701714
Author : Kirsty Duncan
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781845641306
The book thus serves as a comprehensive guide to key environmental and health issues confronting the planet, enumerates approaches and techniques to address these issues, and provides real-world examples of good corporate citizenship.